Audain Faculty of Art

Think, make, think, make.

The Audain Faculty of Art invites you to explore the full potential of complex contemporary art practices in an interdisciplinary environment, leading to a top tier Bachelor of Fine Arts degree among fine art and design colleges, schools, and universities in Canada and North America. Imagine the creation of new objects, images, and sculpture via a diverse set of materials and ideas, backed by real-world conceptual, technical, and historical knowledge.

We are profoundly grounded by conceptual artistic expression honed by intelligent and rigorous critique. Our student environment is stimulating and supportive, developing working artists who are productive and resourceful, driven by a passionate teaching faculty with leading contemporary personal art practices. Our grads become resourceful leaders as nationally and globally recognized artists and scholars in a variety of fields, including research/creation and material practices.

The Audain Faculty of Art offers three Fine Arts Majors. In addition, the Faculty provides two undergraduate degree Minors:

The Audain Faculty of Art provides an enhanced visual arts learning environment offering a studio-based education reflective of the diversity and complexity of contemporary art. The Faculty encompasses three bachelor program majors in Illustration, Photography, and Visual Arts, the last of which includes five practices: ceramics, drawing, painting, print media, and sculpture.

Experiment in-studio. Learn everywhere.

The Ceramics area at Emily Carr University is multidisciplinary and integrates ceramic processes with sculpture, painting, drawing, print media, digital applications, design, and architecture. The curriculum introduces a broad range of concepts, materials, techniques, and equipment within the context of contemporary culture and current art practices. Traditional techniques are merged with emergent applications, including digital and 3D printing. Studios provide a vast range of tools for the exploration of ideas in both two and three dimensions. A commitment to both conceptualization and craftsmanship is paramount within the Emily Carr philosophy of ceramics as a discipline, with consideration for scientific, technological, environmental, and social contexts.

Integral to many other disciplines, Drawing instruction and practice at Emily Carr cover a range of approaches to support manual, optical, and intellectual abilities in drawing. Traditional observational methods such as life drawing with a wide selection of models, and other figurative and perspective projects, are complimented by experimental assignments, drawing for narrative, memory, abstraction, and conceptual methods for drawing from ideas.

Painting at Emily Carr University explores colour, image, structure, surface,and support, combined with a rigorous dialogue about painting today. A variety of approaches build on the discipline's possibilities and reconsider historical precedents to convey new meanings. Whether for narrative or abstract conceptual representation of images or shapes and forms, painting at Emily Carr encourages exploration and practice with a range of materials, including acrylics, oils, and other media.

At Emily Carr University, Print Media focuses on concepts and processes that shape artistic exploration, as well as on the roles that printed image and text play in society. Studies in intaglio, screen print, lithography, woodcut, and book media examine historical and contemporary print directions toward a broad understanding of the print media art form and its possibilities.

Dynamic and experimental, the Sculpture area at Emily Carr University emphasizes interdisciplinarity and the development of ideas and concepts, through the study of three-dimensional form and space and the associated history and theory. The techniques, materials, and methods reflect the diversity of contemporary and traditional practices including video, installation, electronic media and kinetics, cast production, constructed objects and others.